Stephen Decatur Middle School students recently received Rising Star Awards during the Honors Ceremony at the school. The award recognizes students who have participated in voluntary service activities for their school and local community organizations. Award winners, front from left, are Trent Chetelat, Stella Cunningham, Stephanie Marx, Hattie Brous, Frankie Nanna and Maggie Bunting; and back, Lexi Van Kirk, Jessica Wharton, Patrick Miller, Tyler Keiser, Will Bradford and Evan Marlowe. Not pictured were Ben Kolarik, Mackenzie Wagner, Emily Taylor and Solomon Efergan.

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SALISBURY – The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore raised more than $88,000 during its second annual “Shore Gives More” campaign. The foundation’s online campaign allowed individuals to find charities from Worcester, Wicomico and Somerset counties and give them the opportunity to donate on one site. “The Community Foundation serves a diverse audience of organizations,”… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — New regulations prohibiting bow-riding on vessels could be in place as soon as next spring after a productive meeting last week between the area’s representatives in Annapolis and state boating officials. In the wake of several serious boating accidents in the resort last summer, including a fatal propeller strike that claimed the… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Roughly nine miles off the coast of Ocean City, a quiet memorial and final resting place of a beloved long-time resort local, who passed a year ago this month, is now symbolically teeming with life as part of growing artificial reef site. Tony Meredith, known reverently and affectionately as “Uncle Tony” by… Read more »

OCEAN CITY — Calling a potential designation of the offshore Baltimore Canyon as the nation’s first Urban National Marine Sanctuary potentially “devastating” to the multi-million dollar fishing industry, resort officials this week agreed to send a letter of opposition to state and federal representatives. In October, National Aquarium officials announced they were seeking an Urban… Read more »